Singapore Michelin-Starred Food Hawker to Start Chain: A Singapore street-food chef who was awarded a Micheli...

chef who was awarded a Michelin star this year announced Friday a partnership with a multinational culinary company to offer customers across Asia a taste of his prize-winning braised chicken dish . Chan Hon Meng announced in a joint press conference with Singapore-based Hersing Culinary, which holds the Asia franchise for the popular Tim Ho Wan chain, that the partners will collaborate on a new Singaporean restaurant before expanding across the region. "I'm very happy to find the right partner," Chan told reporters. "It's important that they are very enthusiastic about the food and beverage industry and they put their customers first." Their first venture will be a restaurant called Hawker Chan, which will offer the signature chicken dishes Chan currently serves at his stall in Singapore's Chinatown. Malaysian-born Chan is one of two "hawkers" -- so-called because many st...